Donna Huston Murray
When her husband becomes head of a school on Philadelphia’s tony Main Line, Ginger Barnes learns that small private schools need volunteers like the national debt needs taxes. She also learns that murder on the campus can kill the school’s reputation in a heartbeat. Gin’s Mop Squad job allows her to investigate without arousing suspicion, but can she expose the murderer in time to save the school–and her family’s new home–without exposing herself? If she succeeds, will her good deed go unpunished?
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The temptation is great. Just drive her mother's high school chum to the Convention Center at 5:30 in the morning and Ginger Barnes gets to see the internationally renowned Philadelphia Flower Show before the rest of the world. What could possibly go wrong?
Lots. Winifred "Iffy" Bigelow is a bossy, ungrateful grouch. She treats Gin, her mother, and her niece Julia like low-paid employees then complicates their lives by ending up dead. Julia, just released from a mental hospital, snitches an Easter lily to place beside her strangled aunt and wins the title of Suspect No. 1. Mother Cynthia cannot bear the thought and commandeers Gin once again--this time to solve the crime. Click cover for free Kindle sample or to purchase.
Beech Tree Lane is having its very own crime wave. First Gin's friend Liz is murdered by a home intruder, and now the Barnes's nutty next-door neighbor, Letty MacNair, has been mugged. Gin begins to help the eccentric old woman with her recovery but soon realizes Letty will never be safe until Liz’s killer is caught.
A dog trainer is accused of reprograming her ex-husband's guard dog to turn on him. Trying to help out, Gin agrees to look into the fate of the German shepherd, but the dog is doomed unless a judge hears the truth and nothing but the truth. Lots in this one about dieting and dogs.
To save her cousin's baby, savvy football fan, Ginger Barnes tackles the murder of an NFL quarterback. Another surprise ending. o save her cousin's baby, savvy football fan, Ginger Barnes tackles the murder of an NFL quarterback. Another surprise ending.
Blonde bombshell Jan Fairchild told Gin she returned from Hollywood to get in touch with her roots, and the old high school gang certainly acted glad to see her. What the cinema sex-symbol probably should have remembered: Most fatal accidents occur within five miles of home
Killing time before delivering an incorrigible delinquent to be scared straight by a judge, Ginger Barnes takes the boy to watch part of a federal trial. To her dismay, the defendant is her childhood baby-sitter, retired textile professor Charlie Finneymeyer, accused of selling a fraudulent antique Oriental rug. When suspicious heart attacks claim first a witness then Charlie's alleged "customer," Gin's volunteer fact-finding becomes a rush to untangle a knot of deceit involving Winterthur, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Betsy Ross. illing time before delivering an incorrigible delinquent to be scared straight by a judge, Ginger Barnes takes the boy to watch part of a federal trial. To her dismay, the defendant is her childhood baby-sitter, retired textile professor Charlie Finneymeyer, accused of selling a fraudulent antique Oriental rug. When suspicious heart attacks claim first a witness then Charlie's alleged "customer," Gin's volunteer fact-finding becomes a rush to untangle a knot of deceit involving Winterthur, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Betsy Ross.
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